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Posted on 07-23-11 03:48:37 AM Link | Quote
It would've been so incredibly nice if it were at an accessible location

Astronomers have found a massive water vapor cloud, floating around a black hole in the universe.

The gigantic water reservoir, positioned well over 10 billion light years from Earth, holds more than 140 trillion times the mass of water in the Earth's oceans.

"Since astronomers expected water vapor to be present even in the early universe, the discovery of water is not itself a surprise," the Carnegie Institution, one of the groups behind the findings, said in a statement to the press.

The water cloud was found to be in the central regions of a faraway quasar.

"Quasars contain massive black holes that steadily consuming a surrounding disk of gas and dust; as it eats, the quasar spews out amounts of energy," the Institution said in its statement.

The quasar where the gigantic water reservoir is located is some 12 billion years old, only 1.6 billion years younger than the Big Bang.


We could've really used some of that water here, too. Given this:

Some 1.1 billion people live without clean drinking water, according to the World Water Council, "a global water movement for a water secure world."

That means that more than two out of six people are without access to drinking water that is safe for consumption.
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Posted on 07-23-11 05:12:36 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by FieryIce
We could've really used some of that water here, too.

Keep in mind, though, that this water is not only far away in terms of distance, but also in time, as the light from there takes ten billion years to reach us.

Who knows what could have happened to that water after so long of a time?
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The main issue is lack of funding for space travel. If our space travel ever got up to spec, we could probably pick up all the materials we need just by shopping around all the nearby solar systems.

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Even if warp drive was real, that'd take a loooong time to reach.

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Posted on 07-23-11 01:15:40 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by The Red Snifit
Originally posted by FieryIce
We could've really used some of that water here, too.

Keep in mind, though, that this water is not only far away in terms of distance, but also in time, as the light from there takes ten billion years to reach us.

Who knows what could have happened to that water after so long of a time?

Especially since it seems to be near a black hole.

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Even if warp drive was real, that'd take a loooong time to reach.


Yeah, we'd have to look for some closer water deposits...

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Posted on 07-23-11 08:27:03 PM Link | Quote
There's water ice on other worlds in our own solar system Transporting it to Earth would be a pain, though.

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Posted on 07-23-11 08:30:11 PM Link | Quote

I've been telling people for years...

Build intersteller teleporters.

Problem solved ;P

alas... if only it were possible.

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Posted on 07-23-11 08:32:15 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by legacyme3
I've been telling people for years...

Build intersteller teleporters.

Problem solved ;P

alas... if only it were possible.

Well, if we're going that route, we just need to build a replicator, no need to teleport more water in when you can just replicate the water we already have.

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Posted on 07-23-11 08:35:48 PM Link | Quote

Originally posted by Imajin
Originally posted by legacyme3
I've been telling people for years...

Build intersteller teleporters.

Problem solved ;P

alas... if only it were possible.

Well, if we're going that route, we just need to build a replicator, no need to teleport more water in when you can just replicate the water we already have.


The problem is that makes too much sense and is too simple.

No one can make a movie about interstellar teleportation if we don't build the teleporters!

We need to do the whole schabang. And that includes making it as overly complex as possible

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Posted on 07-23-11 08:58:46 PM (last edited by Sofi at 07-23-11 05:59 PM) Link | Quote
Oh my god, that's so cool. Can you imagine if we could actually access that mass of water people would put "from Quasar whatever" on their labels instead of like "Poland Springs, Maine". That would be so awesome. I would buy a single container so I can walk around with a container of "star water". It would be the new Fiji/Evian.

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Posted on 07-23-11 10:06:16 PM Link | Quote
It's really quite fascinating. Of course, even though that super cloud is far away, it just means that there are bound to be other clouds closer to us.


But what I really want to see is all that water clump together into a planet made entirely of water.

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Posted on 07-23-11 10:10:34 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by The Red Snifit
Originally posted by FieryIce
We could've really used some of that water here, too.

Keep in mind, though, that this water is not only far away in terms of distance, but also in time, as the light from there takes ten billion years to reach us.

Who knows what could have happened to that water after so long of a time?

This is really the key point here. What scientists found is what was a giant mass of water floating around a black hole ten billion years ago.

It is overwhelmingly likely that this particular mass of water ceased to exist billions of years before the formation of our solar system.

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Originally posted by legacyme3
Originally posted by Imajin
Originally posted by legacyme3
I've been telling people for years...

Build intersteller teleporters.

Problem solved ;P

alas... if only it were possible.

Well, if we're going that route, we just need to build a replicator, no need to teleport more water in when you can just replicate the water we already have.


The problem is that makes too much sense and is too simple.

No one can make a movie about interstellar teleportation if we don't build the teleporters!

We need to do the whole schabang. And that includes making it as overly complex as possible


Well, the issue is a teleporter requires a replicator. Once you have a replicator that can make people, it can also make water.

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Posted on 07-23-11 10:19:45 PM Link | Quote

Originally posted by Metal_Man88


Well, the issue is a teleporter requires a replicator. Once you have a replicator that can make people, it can also make water.


Again, that's too simple.

Just do the most complex thing possible, and overcomplicate it.

Plus, voyaging into deep space for water is more exciting than making your own water. pshhh

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Posted on 07-29-11 01:50:08 AM (last edited by Viola at 07-28-11 10:51 PM) Link | Quote
Did anyone stop and think about the water we already have? Yes, some places are without while other places have thousands of miles. The Earth's surface is about 70 percent water. It's an immortal substance: You can freeze it, vape it, drink it, dump it, sweat it... anything you want. Nature will bring it all back in some form. It can't be destroyed. Even if you managed to seperate the elements that make it into pure hydrogen and oxygen, they'd just bond back together if not quarantined.

So what exactly would happen to our ice-cap-melting planet if we introduced EXTRA dihydrogen monoxide?

Think about that. :/

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Besides, if we brought in extraterrestrial water, we wouldn't be able to say "it's all dinosaur pee" anymore! (Unless there were dinosaurs on the moon... )

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